Private Law 84–206

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to the Utica Brewing Company, of Utica, New York, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $900, representing the amount paid by said company to the Internal Revenue Service for four fermented malt liquor stamps of the twenty-five barrel denomination at $225 each, which stamps were rendered useless and unfit for the purpose intended, having become lost between the Office of the District Director of Internal Revenue and the office of said brewing company and remain unfound: Provided, That the Utica Brewing Company, of Utica, New York, shall first file in the Treasury Department a sufficient bond in the penal sum of $900 paid for such stamps, in such form and with such surety or sureties as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Treasury, to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any loss on account of the stamps herein described: Provided further, That no part of the amount appropriated in the Act shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of the services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be termed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.